Year: 2010

Yesterday, Jerry Bryant announced here on the MSRC blog that Security Advisory 979682 Released. Click on the link for the details: essentially Security Advisory 979682 addresses an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows kernel, affecting all currently supported versions of 32-bit Windows. Please note that 64-bit versions of Windows, including Windows Server 2008…

As noted in Mike Reavey’s posts on The Microsoft blog and The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog today, we have just released Security Advisory 979352. Here’s the detail from Mike Reavey’s post… Based upon our investigations, we have determined that Internet Explorer was one of the vectors used in targeted and sophisticated attacks against…

Yes, I’ve been neglecting my blog. Although I have a couple of blog posts in the works (on setting up our Windows 7 home network connected to our Media Center), I have been just too busy with (gasp!) real work. So I obviously need to be better at my organization: helpful that I found this…

CES is off to a great start with plenty of new product news… and we haven’t even had the keynote kickoff! As I noted last month (all of a week or so ago) I decided to get on the ebook reader bandwagon and finally ordered a new Amazon Kindle. I was torn on the size:…

As you may already know, CES 2010 begins this week in Las Vegas (officially, CES is January 7-10). Yes, it’s true that researchers have determined that stress may cause the brain to become disconnected, but you don’t have to be disconnected at when traveling to Las Vegas. Once again, I was asked not once, not…